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Item Ships From: Continental US
Dead King 25 [15th Century Sapa Inca]
By Kate Glasheen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This wall-hanging artwork titled "Dead King 25 [15th Century Sapa Inca]" is an original artwork by Kate Glasheen made of pen and ink on archival paper. This ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Pen
![Dead King 25 [15th Century Sapa Inca]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_1882/a_74138821611432839505/Dead_King_25_15th_Century_Sapa_Inca_web_master.jpg?width=240 "sapa inca drawing")
"#187 – HE SAID IT WAS A LIE", ink, pencil, gouache, found vintage book, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#187 – HE SAID IT WAS A LIE" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist is working directly onto page 187 of a found copy of Er...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Surrealist Drawings Geometric Colorist Project, France circa 1960
Located in Atlanta, GA
These exceptional original project drawings, painted with colored pencil on translucent tracing paper, are by a French artist, circa the 1960s. The two paintings feature a geometric ...
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1960s Surrealist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
Two Dogs Playing in Front of a Fence
By Margaret Sweet Johnson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Margaret Sweet Johnson (American, 1893-1964)
Title: Two Dogs Playing in Front of a Fence
Year: Circa 1930
Medium: Ink drawing
Paper: Stock
Size of image: 10 x 8.75 inches
Con...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
"Tell Your Ride", Line Drawing, Car, Acrylic, Graphite, Color Marker
By James Oliver
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This still-life drawing titled "Tell Your Ride" is an original artwork by James Oliver made of acrylic, graphite and color marker on canvas board. This piece measures 12" x 12" frame...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Church in the Cotsworld Way, England
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Church in the Cotsworld Way, England" c.1930, is a watercolor on paper by British artist Ken Cherrington, 1886-1969. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“There’s nothing like a motor for giving me ideas for new dance steps" cartoon
By Orson Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
“Yes, I find there’s nothing like a motor for giving me ideas for new dance steps.”
Humorous illustration for Life magazine, published December 31, 1914
Signed lower left
Lowell ...
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1910s Other Art Style Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
Lounge, Abstract Figurative, Original Painting, Ink on Paper, Black and White
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Mkrtich Sarkisyan (Mcho)
Work: Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Ink on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Abstract Figurative
Subject: Lounge
Size: 14" x 11...
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2010s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Summertime - original large blue nude by Paula Craioveanu 39x27in
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Summertime", pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Large drawing. Shipped rolled in a tube.
Artist Statement
"I started by ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Tempera, Pencil
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Birds - 17th Century Hand Watercolor Engraving
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique Birds - 17th Century Hand Watercolored Etching
Antique Birds, from a collection of the Most Rare Birds Drawn and Engraved From Life, A Natural and Rational History of the Di...
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17th Century French School Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Engraving
$627 Sale Price
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
By Lewis Suzuki
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Lewis Suzuki (Japanese/American, 1920/2016)
Title: Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Year: Circa 1970
Medium: Watercolor
Paper: Watercolor paper
Image size: 14.5 x 10.25 inc...
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1970s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Nude in Coral and Jade' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
A bright, Post Impressionist figural gouache of a woman shown sta...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Cardboard
Burmont and Crest (2021)
By Rob Kaniuk
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Watercolor on cold press paper
Tongue in cheek text reading "Drug Dealer Parking Only" and "Unauthorized Vehicles Will Be Towed Away" on street sign in deep red - burgundy and white and off white to give impression of aging and weathering, with image of tow truck...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
n Memory of the Great Fire at Chicago (Cartoon for the Mural Lunette in the Chic
Located in New York, NY
On October 8, 1871, one of the greatest fires of modern times broke out in Chicago. Engulfing the entire city within hours, it left over 90,000 people homeless and destroyed thousands of buildings, causing many people to flee into the water to escape the flames. Among the property destroyed were the proudest cultural and civic institutions of the city. While the financial center was rebuilt within a year and trade was greater in 1872 than it had been in 1870, it took over a decade for the city’s cultural resources to recover from the disaster. Many of the city’s best artists did not even return to Chicago for several years. Foreign aid poured in from around the world, with half coming from England alone. It is not surprising therefore, that in 1872 it was an English artist that should have designed the mural for City Hall commemorating the Great Fire...
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Late 19th Century Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Vintage Parisian Theater Sketch - Bonnet Beauty
Located in Houston, TX
Darling gouache and pencil sketch of a feminine stage costume complete with matching bonnet for a Paris theater by Willie & Co., circa 1930.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a...
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1920s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Pencil
Untitled: 1930s Drawing Of A Seated Woman
Located in New York, NY
Unidentified Artist, "Untitled: 1930s Drawing of a Seated Woman", Signed Figurative Pencil Drawing on Paper, 21 x 13.88, Early 20th Century, 1936
Colors: Black and White
*Unknown Artist signature...
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1930s Academic Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Party, Original Painting, Ink on Paper, Black and White
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Mkrtich Sarkisyan (Mcho)
Work: Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Ink on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Abstract Figurative
Subject: Party,
Size: 12" x 9" ...
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2010s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Pastel Figure Study of a Kneeling Male Nude Model
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Pastel Figure Study of a Kneeling Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Arena, Original Painting, Ink on Paper, Black and White
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Mkrtich Sarkisyan (Mcho)
Work: Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Ink on Paper
Year: 2023
Style: Abstract Figurative
Subject: Arena,
Size: 12" x 9" ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Nude (Back)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model (Back) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, ear...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Standing Male Nude Model)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Standing Male, Torso)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, 1930s Modern Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Model (Torso) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well execut...
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1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Farmers Market, Glasgow
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Farmers Market, Glasgow" c.1930, is a watercolor on paper by British artist Ken Cherrington, 1886-1969. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwor...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Wrestlers, monochromatic sports dramatic black and white
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monotype on paper
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstr...
Category
2010s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Monotype
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Paul Gattuso, (Abstraction)
By Paul Gattuso.
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address on the ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“The Gesturing Man”
By Benjamin Stahl
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a gesturing old man by the well known American artist Benjamin Stahl. Condition is very good. Two spots of foxing or staining to the left of the figure. Very slight wrinkling of paper. Otherwise, no other issues. Circa 1970. Gallery wide linen matted and framed with a thin silver leaf frame. Overall framed measurements are 19.5 by 20 inches. Provenance: A Nokomis, Florida collector.
Ben Stahl
Biography
Born in Chicago in 1910, Ben Stahl was introduced to the world of art by his grandmother. She took him on visits to the Chicago Art Institute and other galleries beginning when he was six years old and continuing until he was fifteen. After these adventures she would buy him oilcloth, brushes, and paints, and he would create “masterpieces” on the front porch of the family home.
Stahl also read voraciously, which did not translate into academic excellence. However, when he was in seventh grade, he received a scholarship to attend Saturday morning lectures at the Chicago Art Institute. He would spend his Saturday afternoons drawing live animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo and the stuffed variety at the Field Museum, honing his knowledge of animal anatomy.
After high school, Stahl got a job as an apprentice at a commercial art studio. One of the partners, realizing Stahl was ambitious and talented, encouraged him to draw and paint to create a portfolio. It was the contents of this portfolio that landed him a job at Chicago’s most prestigious art studio. During his time there and at other studios, plus a stint as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News, Stahl continued to develop a unique style, influenced by the Impressionists, which he felt would carry the mood and the emotional impact of commercial illustrations.
Ironically, Stahl’s first assignment for The Saturday Evening Post was to illustrate a sea story – this for an artist who had never seen either the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans! The editors liked his work, and there followed four years of marine-themed assignments. Eventually Stahl asked for a change, so his next assignment was set in the desert – which he had also never seen.
He was being noticed, however, and eventually he decided to move to New York and become a freelance illustrator. He illustrated over 750 stories for the Post along with a number of other magazines, and he continued to explore new approaches in his easel painting.
In 1951, Stahl was commissioned to paint "The 14 Stations of the Cross...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
"Lanvin Of Paris Original c1950s Advertising Watercolor Christmas Artwork"
By Alexander Warren Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 18 1/8"H x 12"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
Sailor w/ French Lass In Bag
Category
1950s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Sculpture Motives
By Henry Moore
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Henry Moore. "Sculpture Motives" is a semi-abstract, figurative drawing, ink, watercolor, and wax crayon on paper in beige, white, and black platte by British modern art...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Ink, Watercolor
$18,000 Sale Price
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Lanvin Of Paris Original c1950s Advertising Watercolor Artwork
By Alexander Warren Montel
Located in Bristol, CT
Sz: 14 1/2"H x 23"W
Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002)
Fashion illustrator for House of Lanvin Paris in the 1950s featured in Harper's Bazaar
Salon Interior
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1950s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Etching - Lady Animal, Pastel Watercolor and Acrylic Anthropomorphic Bunny
By Ana May
Located in Houston, TX
Bold in color and whimsy etching colored with watercolor, pastel and acrylics features an anthropomorphized female bunny, posing in Playboy style. Signature at bottom right by artist...
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2010s Other Art Style Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching, Pastel, Paper, Watercolor, Acrylic
'Abigail, by the Light of the Pool', San Diego Artist, Psychological Portraiture
By Daniel Camp
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Daniel M. Camp' (American, born 1947) and painted circa 1985.
A luminously atmospheric portrait of the artist's daughter, Abigail, at the age of three.
Daniel ...
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1980s Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Varicose Wyn. Work on paper
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Varicose Wyn, 1989 - 2012 by Judith Mason
Pencil on paper
Frame size: 12 H x 10.5 W x 1 D in.
Image size: 9 H x 7.5 W in.
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Judith Mason born Judith Seel...
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2010s Post-Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of a shirtless man in sun...
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1990s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Alfred Bendiner, La Alsacienne (pair)
By Alfred Bendiner
Located in New York, NY
Leave it to the Bendiners to find an Alsatian restaurant in Paris (La Taverne Alsacienne) and use it's stationary to such a great end! And thank goodness that the paper required two ...
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1960s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
I Am A Dog
By Olivia Gibb
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title : I Am A Dog
Materials : paste,ink,pencil,pen
Date : 2016
Dimensions : 8.5×11
Signed
COA provided
Art school took Olivia Gibb away from Oklahoma and up to Kansas City, which s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paste, Ink, Pen, Pencil
$498 Sale Price
42% Off
Napa Vineyard
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Napa Vineyard" c.2000 is a color pastel on paper by noted American artist Reif Ray Charles Erickson, 1949-2015. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 12.25 x 19.25 inches, Framed size is 24.5 x 31.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold and black frame, with gold color bevel and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame has very minor restorations, practically invisible.
About the artist:
Reif Erickson...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Winning Home Watercolour by Lucien Peytong (b.-Deauville 1950)
By Lucien Peytong
Located in Bristol, CT
Vivid watercolor by Lucien Peytong (b.-1950) depicting a French racehorse Winning Home
Art Sz: 11"H x 15" W
Frame Sz: 14 1/2"H x 18 1/2"W
w/ linen m...
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1970s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
“Sleigh Ride”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original artwork for Manville Card Company. Circa 1975. Condition is very good. Watercolor and gouache on heavy card stock. Will be sold with original Christmas card with notations. Sheet size 9 by 10...
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1970s Other Art Style Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Cardboard
$180 Sale Price
20% Off
“It’s high time we met" story illustration for the Post
By Henry Raleigh
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “The Gay Banditti” by I. A. R. Wylie for The Saturday Evening Post, published February 26, 1938, pages 6-7.
The full caption reads: “‘It’s high time we met,’...
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1930s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Female Legs & Feet)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Standing Female Model (Legs and Feet) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 193...
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1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"Journey Relaxante"
By Itzchak Tarkay
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mixed media watercolor on Paper - signed lower right. COA provided. Sheet Size 12"H x 12"W
Category
Late 20th Century Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Male Legs, Knee & Feet)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Seated Male Model (Legs, Knee and Feet) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 1...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study (Female Leg, Knee & Foot)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Seated Female Model (Leg, Knee and Foot) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early ...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing (Male Legs & Feet)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study of a Standing Male Model (Legs & Feet) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 1930s c...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A Very Finely Drawn 1930s Modern Figure Study of a Female Nude Model (Back)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Very Finely Drawn, 1930s Modern Figure Study of a Standing Female Nude Model (Back) by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An early composite charcoal d...
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1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Nashville is an Enigma, mixed media painting by renowned female artist, signed
By Katherine Porter
Located in New York, NY
Katherine Porter
Country Music (Nashville is an Enigma), 1986
Mixed media; colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paper, uniquely signed and inscribed with Nashville dateline
Hand ...
Category
1980s Abstract Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing (Male Model, Arms)
By Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine, Modern 1930s Academic Anatomical Figure Study Drawing of Male Arms by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A well executed, early 1930s charcoal study (a c...
Category
1930s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
"To the left" 2024 signed original acrylic ink watercolor work on paper 26x38 in
By Luis Miguel Valdes
Located in Miami, FL
Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuba, 1949)
'To the left, woman', 2024
acrylic, ink and watercolor on paper
25.6 x 37.8 in. (65 x 96 cm.)
Hand-signed by author
_________________________________...
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2010s Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Dramatic Profiles in Multiples
By Colette Pettier
Located in Houston, TX
Dramatic mid-century etching of profiles layered over each other by French artist Collette Pettier, 1965. Signed lower right.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with...
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1960s Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
Ka-Na-Pi-Ma, An Ottowa Chief Hand-Colored Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
KA-NA-PI-MA, AN OTTAWA CHIEF., from History of the Indian the Indian Tribes of North America, ca. 1842, hand-colored lithograph
The lithograph by Charles Bird King depicts Ka-na-pi...
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1840s Hudson River School Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Lithograph
Red Grooms, Unique drawing of Provincetown Mass. beach, Pop Art Signed, framed
By Red Grooms
Located in New York, NY
RED GROOMS
(Untitled), for Alice + Bo, Provincetown 1966
Original ink drawing on paper
Signed, inscribed and dated with a dateline of Provincetown on recto.
Vintage frame included
Th...
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1960s Pop Art Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Passageway North Africa, street scene
By Martha Walter
Located in Greenwich, CT
Passageway North Africa was executed during Walter’s extensive travels throughout Spain, Northern Africa, and the Dalmatian coast. These works are magnificent snapshots –pictorial po...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Environmental Prognostication Coil Narrative "Homo Sapiens R.I.P."
Located in Miami, FL
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," Joni Mitchell said. - - Created in 1969, at the dawn of the American environmental movement, artist Richard Erdoes draws a sequential narrative in the form of a coil. From inception to destruction, it illustrates a list of things that humans are doing to destroy the world we live in. The work was commissioned for school-age humans and executed in a whimsically comic way. Yet the underlying narrative is sophisticated and foreshadows a world that could be on the brink of ecological disaster.
Graphically and conceptually, this work exhibits an endless amount of creativity and Erdoes cartoony style is one to fall in love with.
Signed lower right. Unframed 12.4 inches Width: 12.85 inches Height is the live area. Board is 16x22 inches.
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian opera singer who had died a few weeks earlier in Budapest on June 9, 1912.After his birth, his mother lived with her sister, the Viennese actress Leopoldine ("Poldi") Sangora,He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."[4]
Career
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[5] He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States. He married his first wife, fellow artist Elsie Schulhof (d. xxxx) in London, shortly before their arrival in New York City.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children.[6] Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories...
Category
1960s American Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
Paul Gattuso, (Young Woman)
By Paul Gattuso.
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address.
Gattus...
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1930s Ashcan School Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype
Overlooking the Bay
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Overlooking the Bay" 2003 Is a watercolor on paper by Filipino artist Ephraim Samson, b.1947. It is signed and dated at the lower right co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Patterns female figure pattern dress strong red-orange and black colors
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...
Category
2010s Expressionist Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Archival Paper
Reclining Nude in black ink on buff paper
By John Begg, 1903
Located in Brookville, NY
John Begg studied art at Columbia University, with Arthur Wesley Dow, with Charles Martin, and studied sculpture with Jose De Creeft and Ossip Zadkine. He was a member of the Ameri...
Category
1950s American Modern Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Soft and Fuzzy, Watercolor Paper Drawing, Cat with Flowers, Graphic Wavy Pattern
By SarahGrace
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Soft and Fuzzy" (2021) by SarahGrace
Watercolor tip ink on watercolor paper
Hand-signed by artist
Certificate of Authenticity Included
Framing Available
Watercolor / Pop and Contemp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Continental US - Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
